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John DeTar's two-fisted approach has helped make him the family doctor's leading booster and a national figure in U.S. medicine. When he arrived in Milan (pop. 3,900) just out of internship at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, he planned to return soon to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Generalists' General | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

To handle the bill on the floor, Johnson picked Oklahoma's amiable Senator Mike Monroney, at whom nobody ever gets mad. Backing Monroney was Arkansas' syrup-toned Senator William Fulbright, who specializes in charm. In the background was Oklahoma's heavy-fisted, wrath-kindling Senator Robert Kerr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Healing Hand | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

"Anything for Money." Jack worked hard, made regular payments on his forgery debt (by last week he had reduced the balance to $105.34), and seemed to be an exemplary family man. In his business he was erratic and clench-fisted, but he had a weakness for children, often selling 10...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Christmas Present | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

Died. Shigeo Odachi, 63, iron-fisted director of the General Affairs Bureau in Japan's puppet Manchukuo government, wartime mayor of Singapore, Home Minister (1944), member of the Diet since 1953; of cancer; in Tokyo.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 10, 1955 | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

Of Man's Mortality. Speaking to the state chairmen, Ike didn't say yes, and he didn't say no. What he did say, after delivering a hard-fisted lecture on the necessity for a take-nothing-for-granted campaign next year, was this: "While I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Happiness Through Health | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

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